Triple

T16917266
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject British military administration in Mesopotamia E410351 entity
Predicate significantEvent P259 FINISHED
Object British occupation of Mosul
The British occupation of Mosul was the 1918 seizure and subsequent control of the strategically important Ottoman city of Mosul by British forces at the end of World War I, shaping the postwar borders and politics of modern Iraq.
E1242278 NE FINISHED

How this triple was built (4 steps)

Every LLM step that produced this triple, in pipeline order — named-entity classification, the disambiguation choices (the exact options shown, with the pick highlighted), and the generated description. The batch + timestamp of each is in the Provenance table below.

NER Named-entity recognition gpt-5-mini
Instruction
Given a phrase, classify it is english named entity (e.g., persons, organizations, works of art) in Latin script, or not (e.g., literals, dates, URLs, verbose phrases). For disambiguation, the statement where the phrase occurs as object is also given. Please return a JSON object with `phrase` (string, the phrase being analyzed) and `is_ne` (boolean, indicating whether the phrase is a Named Entity).
Input
Phrase: British occupation of Mosul | Statement: [British military administration in Mesopotamia, significantEvent, British occupation of Mosul]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: British occupation of Mosul
Context triple: [British military administration in Mesopotamia, significantEvent, British occupation of Mosul]
  • A. British occupation of Basra
    The British occupation of Basra was the 1914 World War I campaign in which British-Indian forces seized the key port city of Basra from the Ottoman Empire, establishing a strategic foothold in Mesopotamia.
  • B. Capture of Baghdad (1917)
    The Capture of Baghdad (1917) was a key World War I victory in which British and Indian forces seized the Ottoman-held city of Baghdad, significantly weakening Ottoman control in Mesopotamia.
  • C. French occupation of Cilicia
    The French occupation of Cilicia was a post–World War I military and administrative control of the Cilicia region in southern Anatolia by France, marked by conflict with Turkish nationalist forces and ending with French withdrawal in the early 1920s.
  • D. British occupation of Kabul
    The British occupation of Kabul was a brief 19th-century military control of Afghanistan’s capital by British forces during the First Anglo-Afghan War, which ended disastrously with a retreat marked by heavy losses.
  • E. Iraqi Levies
    The Iraqi Levies were locally recruited auxiliary troops serving under British command in Iraq, known for their role in defending British interests and installations such as RAF Habbaniya during World War II.
  • F. None of above. chosen
  • G. Unsure - the case is ambiguous/there is not enough information to decide.
NEDg Description generation gpt-5.1
Instruction
Generate a one-sentence description of the target entity. 
You are given a context triple in the form (subject, predicate, object), where the object is the target entity. 
# Instructions
Use the triple to infer relevant information about the entity. Describe the entity based on what is most defining, well-known. 
Avoid repeating the information from the triple, unless really essential.
# Response Format
Return only the sentence: "Description: [one-sentence description of the target entity]"
Input
Entity: British occupation of Mosul
Triple: [British military administration in Mesopotamia, significantEvent, British occupation of Mosul]
Generated description
The British occupation of Mosul was the 1918 seizure and subsequent control of the strategically important Ottoman city of Mosul by British forces at the end of World War I, shaping the postwar borders and politics of modern Iraq.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: British occupation of Mosul
Target entity description: The British occupation of Mosul was the 1918 seizure and subsequent control of the strategically important Ottoman city of Mosul by British forces at the end of World War I, shaping the postwar borders and politics of modern Iraq.
  • A. British occupation of Basra
    The British occupation of Basra was the 1914 World War I campaign in which British-Indian forces seized the key port city of Basra from the Ottoman Empire, establishing a strategic foothold in Mesopotamia.
  • B. Capture of Baghdad (1917)
    The Capture of Baghdad (1917) was a key World War I victory in which British and Indian forces seized the Ottoman-held city of Baghdad, significantly weakening Ottoman control in Mesopotamia.
  • C. French occupation of Cilicia
    The French occupation of Cilicia was a post–World War I military and administrative control of the Cilicia region in southern Anatolia by France, marked by conflict with Turkish nationalist forces and ending with French withdrawal in the early 1920s.
  • D. British occupation of Kabul
    The British occupation of Kabul was a brief 19th-century military control of Afghanistan’s capital by British forces during the First Anglo-Afghan War, which ended disastrously with a retreat marked by heavy losses.
  • E. Iraqi Levies
    The Iraqi Levies were locally recruited auxiliary troops serving under British command in Iraq, known for their role in defending British interests and installations such as RAF Habbaniya during World War II.
  • F. None of above. chosen

Provenance (5 batches)

The batch behind each pipeline step, in order, with when it ran. Timestamps are batch-level — stages were processed in waves, so the object chain (NER → NED1 → NEDg → NED2) reads in order, but predicate / elicitation batches can sit in a different wave.

Step Stage Batch ID Status When
creating Elicitation batch_69d886c7b1e481908c3766dfa8c13458 completed April 10, 2026, 5:12 a.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69e3cdeb74c08190b6f247cdf4b21405 completed April 18, 2026, 6:31 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_6a00d458902481908f79cd5a9f72f7fd completed May 10, 2026, 6:54 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_6a00d4e10e848190aaa2a83012cb58ba completed May 10, 2026, 6:56 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_6a00d5b57a988190abd768b4b5097e45 completed May 10, 2026, 7 p.m.
Created at: April 10, 2026, 5:30 a.m.